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Fortunately for me, Amsterdam was pleasantly manageable. Van Gogh and the Rijksmuseum, check. Requisite picture near the “I Amsterdam” sign, check. Overeating like the country of overeaters we were proud to represent, check. One might say it was our patriotic duty...
...write this in Peet’s, where an army of hipsters has been shooting me death glares ever since my failure to immediately move upon finishing my hot chocolate. “Move, outlet-hogging bitch,” their eyes say. “And is that...Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ coming out of your iPod? We hope you are listening to that ironically.” Everything seems faster here; everyone seems busier. Maybe it’s just that it’s home. There?...
It’s a Harvard thing too, I think. Everyone thinks that what they’re doing is the most important—and sure, PBHA, maybe teaching blind kids how to read Braille is kind of noble, or whatever. I think you could say writing for FM has its noble, humanity-saving aspects as well. Wasting time (either not working, or not thinking and complaining about working) is anathema here. Few people spend afternoons lazing in coffee shops or cafés without an accompanying laptop...
...tell people the basic gist of the plot, and they say, ‘Oh, it’s fiction,’” said Schama. “And I say, ‘No, no it’s written like narrative history, and it’s kind of like biography, but it reads like a novel...
Edward D. Grom ’12 is also skeptical about the power of the magnet. “So if I bring a magnet along in my pocket, I can steal from children, and their moms will just chuckle and say, ‘Oh, you meant well’?” he said. “Let’s be real, people...